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Originally Posted by BobC
So if Joel was the translator of Gorky and was born in 1876 then if still alive he would be 71 in 1947 (for the 70 year rule).
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Right. And if his heirs or copyright holders show up and ask us to remove his works, we'll quickly do so. Until then, in the best faith, we treat the works as public domain.
The situation would be slightly different in the US. As works published before 1923, they are public domain regardless of their author's date of death. If they were published later, at least in some circumstances the term could be 120 years after publication.
Nice research, by the way. We still have many authors/translators/illustrators of whom we know nothing but--if lucky--the name.